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Nic Wise

@fastchicken.co.nz

Software Engineer/Eng Manager in training. SRE. AWS/Terraform/Typescript/React(Native). AI enthusiast. Lover of great Coffee. Mountain Bike and RPM Enthusiast. Island Dweller. Photo is of Milo.

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Can I use “my brother in elevated pasta”?

Asking for a spaghetti monster.

08.03.2026 20:05 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Can’t be Aussie. Hasn’t tried to kill you yet.

Yet.

08.03.2026 05:04 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I prefer charcole BBQ but this works on a gas too. Usually enough fat on the top that you dont need much/any oil.

higher internal temp for more well done. The internet has numbers. if you reset it (the 15m) do it slightly LOWER than you want as it'll keep cooking a bit. (eg I want 45, I stop at 40)

08.03.2026 04:58 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

depends how you like it for what temp (internal) to go to, but I like the rare side of medium rare

salt and pepper (quite a lot of pepper, not a lot of salt) both sides. let it come to room temp

Cook both sides, flip often. Remove when the internal is around 40 C. wrap in tin foil, wait about 15m

08.03.2026 04:58 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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You know that feeling when you're struggling to stay awake? #kakapo chicks Tiwhiri-A3 and Tiwhiri-A4 in Tiwhiri's nest on Pukenui/Anchor Island. Both around two weeks old, and doing well. #kakapo2026 #conservation #parrots

08.03.2026 04:50 👍 367 🔁 120 💬 13 📌 6

You ate the lot, right?

And you’re still awake….

07.03.2026 20:00 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
First Look: NZ’s Newest Electric Ferry Hits the Water ⚡ + Megawatt Charging! 🚤
First Look: NZ’s Newest Electric Ferry Hits the Water ⚡ + Megawatt Charging! 🚤 YouTube video by Ecotricity NZ

🚤⚡ This is NZ’s newest electric ferry - and I went where nobody's allowed! 😁

From the bridge to the batteries - even the Hamilton jets - we go behind the scenes of this 200 person, battery-powered beast - even using the country's FIRST MEGAWATT CHARGER!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qymm...

06.03.2026 04:05 👍 67 🔁 17 💬 4 📌 1

Same. Last few have been ... not bad. This one was a killer

07.03.2026 03:48 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Preview
Original Island Gin 700 ml | 43.2% ABV Island Gin Original has won... 2025 World Gin Awards Country Winner (New Zealand)  2023 IWSC Silver  2023 San Francisco World Spirits Gold  2022 San Francisco World Spirits Double G...

Ours are in these. Yes they ship them with a pourer. Yes we drink the gin first.

islandgin.com/products/isl...

06.03.2026 03:38 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Got mine on Wednesday. I normally react strongly to vaccines (all of them) - which is fine cos it’s my body doing its thing.

But damn this one was like the OG covid one. Brain fog for 24 hours, chills etc.

Explains maybe why the current infections have been hitting people esp hard this month.

05.03.2026 19:21 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Booked? I just walked into our chemist.

05.03.2026 19:19 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

There’s always a quad flu one that costs (or free for old folks)

But yes. Likely worth it. It’s like $60 from memory

05.03.2026 19:18 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Exactly

05.03.2026 19:14 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Would've happened sooner, but with the funding cuts and all they had trouble funding a bus to throw her under.

05.03.2026 19:13 👍 32 🔁 1 💬 3 📌 0

I guess Robert will be having the day off, nothing in his remit to comment on this week...

05.03.2026 04:37 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

A18 Pro is a phone chip. Why have more than one on a phone? UsB controller will be on the die i suspect .

04.03.2026 19:54 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I could make the ports work. But 8GB… not sure.

04.03.2026 19:38 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

The Neo with 16GB would be an instabuy, but with 8GB...

I mostly want it for Chrome and terminal. So... should actually be enough. I'd use my iPad + keyboard, but iPadOS is such a clusterfuck with multitasking its not usable.

04.03.2026 18:49 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

M4 Air (32/1TB) last week: $4100

M5 Air (32/1TB) this week: $3800

I did NOT have a price drop on my bingo card, I guess Apple expects the NZD to get a lot stronger over the next 12 months?

04.03.2026 18:20 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

True

Current clusterfuck: DHL hand off to Aramex cos they don’t do “rural” (Waiheke is rural for some carriers)

aramex ALSO don’t do rural/waiheke, so handing off to courier post…

5 days later, no one knows where the package is.

04.03.2026 17:54 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Might not be so bad except both of these are awful at actually delivering packages.

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/588642/courier-companies-fined-over-1-million-for-cartel-conduct

04.03.2026 08:01 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Sorry to hear it. Animals are family.

04.03.2026 05:47 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

For those who still care / have forgotten. Your local chemist likely has the updated COVID vaccine from this week.

Walk in. Jab. Wait 5 mins. Go home.

Easy.

04.03.2026 05:22 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Sounds about right.

03.03.2026 22:26 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Can they just chop it out and replace it with a chainsaw?

(j/k, I hope it goes as well as it possibly can. Loved his work for a very long time....)

03.03.2026 02:48 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

In terms of sentiment he’s kinda right. He’s bonkers tho.

Works the other way too. Vote National and you’re going to get act and NZF (or TPM maybe which will put the shits up a lot more Nat voters)

02.03.2026 19:08 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Also 140k kms??? Wow. Ours has done 60k. We got it just under 40

Joys of living on waiheke.

02.03.2026 18:57 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Whole thing was. Wandered into policy wonk land a bit in the middle. But overall excellent. Thanks for linking to it.

02.03.2026 18:56 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Even if Secretary Hegseth backs down and narrows his extremely broad threat against Anthropic, great damage has been done. Even in the narrowest supply-chain risk designation, the government has still said that they will treat you like a foreign adversary-indeed, they will treat you in some ways worse than a foreign adversary—simply for refusing to capitulate to their terms of business. Simply for having different ideas, expressing those ideas in speech, and actualizing that speech in decisions about how to deploy and not deploy one's property. Each of these things is fundamental to our republic, and each was assaulted —not anything like for the first time but nonetheless in novel ways—by the Department of War last week. Most corporations, political actors, and others will have to operate under the assumption that the logic of the tribe will now reign.

Even if Secretary Hegseth backs down and narrows his extremely broad threat against Anthropic, great damage has been done. Even in the narrowest supply-chain risk designation, the government has still said that they will treat you like a foreign adversary-indeed, they will treat you in some ways worse than a foreign adversary—simply for refusing to capitulate to their terms of business. Simply for having different ideas, expressing those ideas in speech, and actualizing that speech in decisions about how to deploy and not deploy one's property. Each of these things is fundamental to our republic, and each was assaulted —not anything like for the first time but nonetheless in novel ways—by the Department of War last week. Most corporations, political actors, and others will have to operate under the assumption that the logic of the tribe will now reign.

Fascinating article. It argues that the republic is already dead, and the DoW incident is merely the signal

www.hyperdimensional.co/p/clawed

02.03.2026 18:23 👍 52 🔁 9 💬 8 📌 2

Yeah. That snip you posted was very well written

02.03.2026 18:42 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0